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Low Liffey, show me gold. Head of Policy @ChristianAidIrl / Campaign to Pass the Occupied Territories Bill #PassTheOTB. Likes jokes, politics, dogs. Views own.

Dublin / Wexford
Joined October 2010
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US politicians are defending Israel’s efforts to tear up international law and annex the West Bank. They’re criticising Ireland and the Occupied Territories Bill. What should we do? Debated the case on @drivetimerte yesterday, you can listen back here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22…
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Kurt Vonnegut writes to his dad about selling his first story, on this day in 1949: (Letters of Note)
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A study of wild orangutans now suggests that mothers go out of their way to arrange play dates for their offspring go.nature.com/4zzKQpd
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To say the ‘rightly or wrongly’ here is doing a lot of work would be understatement. It’s saying we should accept all the legal consequences flowing from an executive designation of a group as terrorist – no matter how ‘wrong’ it may be. Authoritarian-friendly mindset.
Sally Rooney is perfectly capable of financially supporting the Palestinian cause without knowingly funding a group proscribed (rightly or wrongly) for terrorism. This is performative martyrdom and nobody wins.
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Forget all the noise, sound & fury. Here's Sally Rooney in June instead: "The truth of the world we live in, the logic of our civilisation today, is there in the rubble of Gaza. As we know all too well, Israel has not and could not have conducted this campaign of genocide alone.”
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“At the end of all these budget figures are real people, children going to bed hungry, children not being educated.” @RosamondBennett reacts to the Irish Presidency’s propsed 17% cut to internatioanl development spending in the draft EU budget. rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/101…
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Incredible things happening, as usual, over at the r/irishpersonalfinance subreddit
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Great to meet Commissioner @hadjalahbib in Brussels with other Irish NGO leaders & talk about the importance of long term, life-saving humanitarian funding in the European Commission's new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) so we can better respond to disasters & crises.
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Mañana miles de niños en el recreo van a intentar hacer esto y 5% acelerarán su primera rotura de menisco. Es hermoso
This is the most beautiful gif ever
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The whole point of art, in fact the point of engaging with another person's thoughts in any capacity, is to expand your very limited individual perspective on the world, not to live in a tiny box perfectly catered to your adolescent personal tastes
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Doing generates its own vitality
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Exclusive with @AlexDooler @DNair5 UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City’s punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter They consider the Premier League’s actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing undisclosed information The extraordinary pressure comes after Andy Burnham faced criticism, including from within government, for saying Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified specifically because of the investment they bring to Britain bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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This morning, Christian Aid Ireland’s @conoraon is speaking to @EP_Development about the importance of fair taxation systems, without which efforts to tackle poverty and inequality are badly undermined. You can following proceedings live, here👇multimedia.europarl.europa.e…
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Etihad threatening to sue. UAE reportedly intimating that UK investment could be pulled. A Prime Minister couching any criticisism. If this sorry saga doesn't convince you that state ownership of football clubs should never be allowed, nothing ever will.
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Christian Aid Ireland’s Sean McLoughlin joined the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition in Leinster House today to present the findings of a new report calling for the government to urgently close Ireland’s emissions gap and a range of policies they can and should implement now.
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Absolutely nuclear needle drop. Damn near floated out of my seat when this hit in the theater.
can’t believe it’s already one year to the day since this masterpiece released
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The updated @Google satellite images of #Gaza are quite incredible, for all to see...
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no por favor qué fotón por dios mirá lo que es esto
minha mãe quis registrar a primeira compra de pão que eu e meu irmão fizemos sozinhos kkkkk
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Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter. A passage that has stayed with me years after I first encountered it
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In the Seanad this week: the EU Commission won't act on settlement trade, but France, Canada and the UK will, and they're including services. Ireland led and others followed. Now let's finish the job and include services. #OccupiedTerritoriesBill #palestine @trocaire @SadakaIreland @conoraon @eamonnmeehan1 @gerry_liston
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